STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- You'd think the state Department of Transportation, which manages the Staten Island Expressway, would have been on top of the great pineapple spill Saturday morning, which brought traffic to a standstill for nearly six hours after a tractor trailer carting the fruit overturned in eastbound lanes near the Slosson Avenue exit.

But you'd be wrong.

It was several city agencies that handled the response that was coordinated by the New York City Office of Emergency Management.